Culture Brats

It may be difficult to imagine in this day and age when all the kids are slick poseurs standing around looking jaded and hard to impress, but I actually had to physically restrain mine from beating down a door to get to the Hendrix of Kids Entertainment, Tom Kenny. Vaulted into the pop culture stratosphere by the worldwide appeal of SpongeBob, he is now a star known for his distinct voices and tremendous range.

It is a peculiar phenomenon to be so widely known yet to have your notoriety limited to what others can hear instead of see. This seems to work just fine for Tom who took time out of his busy schedule to talk to us last week and to keep me in stitches for nearly thirty minutes straight.

Hi, Tom. How are you?
I'm great. Sorry, you are the 3rd of three phoners and they were all running over today

Oh, that's okay. I was a little terrified that I was beeping in on your line the entire time you were talking to that person. I did that on another interview as well.
You know what? I could hear it but for some reason they couldn't so that was good.

That had to be annoying.
That's okay. I have kids, so I'm real good at tuning out extraneous noise.

Okay, lets' start out with the obvious. You are like the Marlon Brando of voice talent.
Does that mean I'm going to end up really fat living on an island?

Yes, you are.
He kind of ended up his own island. Kids involved in weird murder.

I actually forgot about that. Okay, never mind
STELLA!

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